The actor from the widely derided Peloton holiday advertisement gifted his actual girlfriend the $2,000-bike Online Cigarettes Store USA for Christmas.
Sean Hunter posted a photo to Instagram with his girlfriend sitting on a Peloton with the caption: "Here's hoping this goes over better the second time.... Merry Christmas to my actual girlfriend (pls don't leave me)."
In the ad, Hunter plays a husband who gifts his wife a Peloton bike for Christmas. The ad then documents Newport 100s Box — through a selfie selfie — the "Peloton wife's" year-long experience with her Peloton, culminating with the wife thanking her husband for the bike after they watch footage of her exercising.
The ad was briefly unnoticed on internet, until a user on Twitter commented on the ad, saying "this ad is making me lose my goddamn mind."
Then the pile-on began. Some users were uncomfortable with the "Peloton husband" seeming to suggest Cheap Newport 100s cigarettes that his wife should exercise more; others lambasted the awkward structure of the woman documenting her year on the bike; while others comments on how terrified the "Peloton wife" appeared.